Great amp for small stage?

[andawun]

Old or new Hartke 112 kickback combo and the newer Peavey Max 112.

 

[BobDeRosa]

I've tried it, but it has been difficult trying to hear myself sometimes having to be so close to the amp. Then I end up so loud that everyone Thats why I was thinking maybe I needed a kickback styled amp that I can get something firing toward my head instead of at my ankles.

I've also thought about taking both cabs and only plugging the top one in, but sometimes that can be a bit cramped on smaller stages as sometimes.

Wouldn't something like this make any amp a kickback? https://www.amazon.com/Stage-RS4000...499890&sr=1-4-catcorr&keywords=bass+amp+stand

 

[bstringrandy]

For a long time, I used a GK MB115 on an amp stand for small stages/venues. When it died recently, I sold it for parts and picked up one of these.

https://ampeg.com/products/bassamp/ba-210/

It works great, sounds awesome, and has plenty of power to be heard. 283 watts rms as is or 450 with an extension cab. Since I always have PA support, I just put it behind me and adjust the volume to where I can hear myself comfortably.

 

[shadven]

Ampeg Rocketbass B100R

 

[pbassjbass]

I use a onstage ws8540 (On-Stage Stands WS8540 Heavy-Duty T-Stand - Medium-format). Works well for tight stages. We often actually set it over the top of a super reverb the front man uses. That works well since he's got some room for the sound to develop, while I'm standing right next to my cabinet. In a lot of our settings, we're old school, no monitors, just two sound on stick PA speakers. I miss kustom 200's and shure vocal masters, sometimes. At least there was more back wash off the larger cabinets, to hear the vocals.

 

[JimmyM]

I have a couple small tilt-back combos for just such a purpose. I love them, too. They're inexpensive, sound killer for the money, and give me all I need in the situations I'm using them.

 

[Altitude]

It may be not be the perfect solution for your case, but I was shocked at how stage filling (for myself and the drummer especially) one of Duke's Changeling 112T cabs was. I use it frequently in situations like you describe and it works brilliantly

My suggestion also. These have midrange drivers ported to allow some sound to escape upward and to fire backward at the back wall. Very effective.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Recently I have found myself sometimes needing to play some smaller stages, where I feel like I'm having to be right on top of my amp. Generally I play a 700 watt head with a couple of 1x15s, but that tends to blow everyone across the room away while sometimes I have trouble hearing since I'm having to be so close to my amp.

Long story short, I was thinking maybe I should look in to a kickback style amp or maybe a PJB Flightcase, with the upward firing speakers. I figured maybe I'd come on here and see what thoughts the TalkBass community had on this.

700W amp. 1x15. Amp stand.

 

[rtslinger]

Fender Rumble combo or the new Peavey Max series with the new speaker angle

 

[jthisdell]

I like my Bergantino CN210 on most any stage, big or little. Sits high enough that I can hear it without a stand or tilting and very clear.

 

[TheBassPreacher]

Well my kickback amp purchase fund just got eaten up by a Ampeg PF-50T and PF-115HE. So I think I'll be trying out my ampstand.

 

[nomeX]

I always gigged my only bass combo at the time GK MB115. I put it on a stand and let the PA do the heavy lifting. I never really dimed the volume, so I had no idea what it was capable of until I rehearsed in a very sound absorbing studio and found I had to turn up to 6 on the master. That was all before I discovered tubes, but this combo will probabaly stay with me for gigging at a place with a PA. 37 lbs is a Godsend for me. I suppose I could always gig my Alphabass and GK MBE 2x12 if I needed. But I don't currently need.